Prevalence of Trypanosoma cruzi infection in Latin American pregnant women and level of compliance of the Valencian Health Programme in the city of Alicante

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 142, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 888-890

  Ramos, J M ^a,b   Pinargote, H ^a   Andreu, M ^a   Sastre, J ^a   Torrus, D ^a   Martinez Escoriza, J C ^a,b   Portilla, J ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO DE ALICANTE   (Spain)

^b MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ADULT; CHAGAS DISEASE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREVALENCE; SEROLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; NOTE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HISPANIC; NONHUMAN; PUBLIC HEALTH; SPAIN; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

CHAGAS DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 84901716537     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268813001921     Document Type: Letter

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